The official record as of 9:09am today
The Frank Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 13 acres in Fresno County, California. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.
Undetermined
The cause has not yet been determined.
41 days
on record — first written down on
Thursday 3 September
at 6:19pm local time, starting at 0 acres.
36.715, -119.421lat, lon
is the official point of origin on the interagency record.
Conditions measured 12.0 miles from the fire: 72°F, air at 25% humidity, a 1 mph wind out of the north-west.
Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Elwood Rd Yokuts_Valley Fire started on Friday 9 October, 10.7 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Orange 2 Fire started on Monday 21 September, 10.8 miles south-east, and has reached 0 acres. Madsen Fire started on Sunday 4 October, 11.2 miles north-west, and has reached 0 acres. Sandy Fire started on Sunday 27 September, 11.4 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Sand Fire started 1432 minutes before this one, 12.1 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Mistle Fire started on Friday 28 August, 12.6 miles east, and has reached 0 acres. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.
Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:00pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 185 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.
No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire
yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small
to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident
record and updates as that record does.
How the record has moved
Each step is a change on the interagency incident
record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported.
No satellite reading is involved.
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Thursday 3 September
First reported
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Thursday 3 September
5 acres on record
5 ac
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Thursday 3 September
Grew to 17 acres
17 ac
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Thursday 3 September
Revised to 13 acres
13 ac